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YouTube supports a wide variety of the range of video codec formats, audio codec formats and container formats in use. Read on for more detailed information on YouTube video file formatting.
YouTube Supported Video Formats
- WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
- .MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting H.264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
- .AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
- .MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
- .WMV
- .FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)
Convert videos or rip DVD movies for uploading to YouTube
If your original videos are not supported by YouTube, you may try some video converter software to manually convert videos to YouTube supported video format before uploading to YouTube. The video must meet YouTube uploading requirements: No larger than 2GB and no more than 15 minutes in length.
If you would like to convert your videos to YouTube video format, you may try Aneesoft Video Converter Pro.
If you would like to convert your DVD movies and share on YouTube, just get Aneesoft DVD Ripper Pro to rip/convert DVD movies to YouTube video format.
